The newest educational mantra may as well be: Never let them leave the building. Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York wants Saturday classes. The state's governor, George E. Pataki, says students should stay in school until after dark. And in...

Grants for Classrooms of Double Talk The movement to create dual-language classrooms, in which students toggle between English and another language throughout the school year and often the school day, received a boost last week from the United...

Four years after American fourth-grade students scored high on an international test of science and math, their performance declined markedly when they reached the eighth grade, a second survey shows. The survey results, released here today,...

December 6, 2000, Wednesday

Richard Riley arrived at Kennedy International Airport two years ago a carefree college freshman, just back from a Christmas break visit with his mother in Jamaica. He left the airport 12 hours later shackled, accused of trying to enter the country...

The federal government said yesterday that the nation's elementary and secondary schools would enroll a record 53 million students this fall, continuing a decade-long rise, and could expect that number to jump to 94 million by the end of the 21st...

August 22, 2000, Tuesday

The leaders of the two national teachers unions today harshly criticized the movement to raise academic standards in public schools for misplaced priorities, each saying at their union conventions that politicians and educators should focus more on...

Saying public schools are plagued by ''an old agrarian schedule, an outdated factory model and an antiquated wage system,'' Education Secretary Richard W. Riley proposed yesterday that teachers work year-round, a move he hoped would raise their pay...

To the Editor: ''A Misdirected College Tax Credit'' (editorial, Jan. 22) argues that President Clinton's proposed college opportunity tax cut would be ''frittered away'' on mostly high-income families.